# What's COUNT in Kibana Discovery tab?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-count-in-kibana-discovery-tab/175376>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 4, 2019, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-count-in-kibana-discovery-tab/175376 "2019-04-04T10:06:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Prabhav](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prabhav/32/64630_2.png) [@Prabhav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prabhav)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-count-in-kibana-discovery-tab/175376/1 "2019-04-04T10:06:39Z")

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Hi!  
I am pretty new to ELK stack and was exploring the application for my project.  
I uploaded a CSV file using logstash and went straight to the discovery tab in Kibana, where a Histogram was already plotted, can someone please explain me what exactly is COUNT filed on the y-axis of the histogram.  
Thanks for taking time.

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 5:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-count-in-kibana-discovery-tab/175376/2 "2019-04-04T17:49:54Z")

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hi @Prabhav

the count is the number of documents within each time-range.

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**Author:** ![Prabhav](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prabhav/32/64630_2.png) [@Prabhav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prabhav)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-count-in-kibana-discovery-tab/175376/3 "2019-04-05T14:58:48Z")

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Hey @thomasneirynck thanks so much for getting back.  
Does the plotted histogram for count display the dumped response in a serialized manner?  
As in the document at the first position in the CSV file is plotted first in the graph?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-count-in-kibana-discovery-tab/175376/4 "2019-05-03T14:58:51Z")

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